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黒くろい
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Meanings
I-adjective
1. black
2. dark; blackish; sun-tanned (skin)
3. suspicious; criminal; illicit
4. darkened and dirty; sooty; covered in dirt
5. evil; wicked; black-hearted
6. inauspicious; ill-boding; unlucky
Kanji used
黒black
Pitch accent
くろい
Used in vocabulary
黒くろい霧きり
thick fog (of suspicion); black veil of secrecy; covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
Expression
黒くろい雨あめ
black rain; heavily polluted, radioactive rain sometimes following an atmospheric nuclear explosion (esp. that of Hiroshima)
Expression
黒くろい目め
observant eye
Expression
黒くろい雨あめ
Black Rain (1966 novel by Ibuse Masuji)
Noun
黒くろい九く月がつ
Black September (Palestinian extremist group responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics)
Noun
Examples71
Nancy is a shade darker than Helen.
It was the tall man in the long, black coat.
The governor took the money out of a slush fund.
The Japanese have dark eyes.
Nearly all Japanese have dark hair.
I saw a woman in black.